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...that he had won a seat on the FHLBB for his friend and business associate Henkel (Keating had lent more than $60 million to businesses in which Henkel was part owner) by lobbying former White House chief of staff Donald Regan. Henkel's stint on the board lasted only five months. Although he was cleared of any wrongdoing, he resigned after the Justice Department and the FHLBB investigated his first official act: a motion that would have specifically benefited Keating by exempting Lincoln from direct-investment limits...
Though Keating's refusal to testify brought last week's hearing to an anticlimactic end, the scandal will soon be revived in other forums. The Senate ethics committee has hired an outside investigator to probe the Keating Five, and the FBI is now in on the investigation. Years may pass before the books are finally closed on this fiasco -- and decades before taxpayers are finished paying...
...posture. Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, insisted last week, "What we've done here does not waddle enough to be called ducks." Perhaps. But since the nearly $6 billion in revenue enhancements enacted last week will rise to $30 billion over the next five years, taxpayers may be forgiven if they exercise their right to squawk...
Hayworth married, five times, men who were wrong for her. Her first husband, a drifter and grifter named Eddie Judson, was roughly her father's age. Although he helped turn a chubby young dancer into a screen siren, his methods were brutal; he offered her body to those in Hollywood who could advance her career. She claimed to have been happy with Welles, at least before his infidelities became too blatant. "If this was happiness," Welles told Leaming years later, "imagine what the rest of her life had been...
...Russia House, fails, unsurprisingly, to anticipate the collapse of the East bloc, but it does deal credibly with the slipperiness of glasnost and the refusal of U.S. hard-liners to embrace perestroika. Deighton, on the other hand, is caught embarrassingly short. Spy Line, his new novel, puts him five books into a convoluted six- volume series that depends on East Germany's walled-in villainy to sustain its gray and sunless menace...